About the Journal

Focus and scope

Founded in 1978 by Dr. Emili Giralt i Raventós, with the aim of embracing what was then a new discipline, the agrarian history. Nowadays, the journal welcomes all kinds of original articles on any aspect related to the rural world (society, culture, demography, material world, family, engineering, etc.) from medieval to contemporary times. In each issue, the journal includes some articles of a specific theme as a dossier and another section with articles on a free thematic. The topics of the dossier are announced in advance so that interested authors can submit their proposals for evaluation.

It is aimed at academics and scholars in the field of agrarian history.

 

Fees and charges

The journal Estudis d'Història Agrària does not charge a fee to authors in any way

 

Periodicity

The journal has an annual periodicity. The publication date is the month of December of the year considered.

Peer review process

The journal uses the double-blind system and the Editorial Board will submit the originals for evaluation by two external people  to the Editorial Board and specialists in the subject in question, who, within two months, will report on the suitability  of publish them, or make changes to them. In case of disagreement, the opinion of a third evaluator will be sought. The reasons for the acceptance or rejection of the article will be communicated to the author and, in case of acceptance, he will proceed to introduce the appropriate modifications. These will be reviewed by the Editorial Board to check that they conform to the evaluators' proposal.

The secretariat of the journal Estudis d'Història Agrària will send receipt of the originals within fifteen days and the Editorial Board will decide on its publication within three months.

Except for reviews and introductory paper to the miscellaneous topic if applicable, all articles will be subjected to the indicated evaluation process.

Open access policy

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

 

Rules for the reception of originals, evaluation of articles, formal characteristics and copyright

  1. The journal Estudis d'Història Agrària accepts for publication any manuscript (article, state of the question, bibliographical analysis) related to the historical analysis of agriculture and rural society in the broadest sense and from interdisciplinary approaches, whether theoretical, methodological or empirical works.
  2. Papers should be sent by e-mail to eha@ub.edu. Papers must be original and must not have been submitted to another journal for evaluation.
  3. The journal uses the double-blind system and the Editorial Board will submit the originals for evaluation by two external people  to the Editorial Board and specialists in the subject in question, who, within two months, will report on the suitability  of publish them, or make changes to them. In case of disagreement, the opinion of a third evaluator will be sought. The reasons for the acceptance or rejection of the article will be communicated to the author and, in case of acceptance, he will proceed to introduce the appropriate modifications. These will be reviewed by the Editorial Board to check that they conform to the evaluators' proposal.
  4. The secretary of the journal Estudis d'Història Agrària will send an acknowledgement of receipt of the originals within fifteen days and the Editorial Board will decide on their publication within a maximum period of six months.
  5. The text must be accompanied by a page containing the title of the work, the name of the author(s), the full address, including that of their place of work, the author's institutional affiliation, telephone number, e-mail address and ORCID researcher number. It will also be notified if the research has benefited from any support or if the work has been presented at seminars, congresses, etc. It must also be accompanied by an abstract written in the original language of the text, in Catalan, Spanish and English, which includes the title and reflects, in a maximum of 100 words, the content and results of the work. Key words must also be included in the three languages.
  6. The text will be accompanied by a declaration of originality of the article by the author.
  7. The language of the journal is Catalan. However, original articles will be published in the language in which they have been written (languages of the Spanish state -spanish, catalan, galician, basc- , French and English). If the Editorial Board agrees to their translation, the author's opinion will be taken into consideration.
  8. The maximum length of the article will be 35 pages (12,000 words) including graphs, tables, maps, bibliography and appendices, although the Editorial Board may consider publishing longer articles due to their relevance. The text must be written on one side and double-spaced. Footnotes must be numbered consecutively and placed at the foot of the page. The tables and figures will be numbered correlatively, have a short title and indicate their sources. If the quotations inside the text exceed four lines, they will go to a space, in italics and with different margins than the general ones. For its writing, the criteria of the University of Barcelona https://www.ub.edu/cub/criteris.php will be used in those aspects not defined in this section.
  9. A clean version of the article will be sent with references to the authors in notes, bibliography, acknowledgements or participation in research projects to facilitate the work of the reviewers.
  10. The bibliographic citation system will be APA, 7th in order to homogenise the bibliographies. Whole bibliographical references or abbreviations in footnotes will not be accepted. The characteristics can be found at https://www.scribbr.com/apa-style/apa-seventh-edition-changes/
  11. The journal will not charge any fee for publication in Estudis d'Historia Agraria both directly and indirectly.
  12. The bibliographical references cited in the text will be listed at the end of the article and will follow the APA format indicated above. The DOI of the article or work cited should be included if known.

Examples of bibliographical citations (APA 7 system)

(Llonch, 1998, pp. 39-41)

(Colomé, Ferrer & Valls, 2016)

(Articles)

Llonch, M. (1998). La capacitat exportadora de la indústria catalana del gènere de punt (1876-1935), Recerques , 37,165-194.

https://doi.org/10.1177/152700250000100304

(Books)

Serra Puig, E. (1988). Pagesos i senyors a la Catalunya del segle XVII.  Crítica.

(Thesis)

Tello, E. (1987). “Pagesos, menestrals i rendistes. Cervera i la Segarra en l’arrencada industrial catalana (1702-1861)” (Tesi doctoral, Universitat de Barcelona)

http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/35538

(Book chapters)

Colomé Ferrer, J. (2015). “Expansió vitícola, consolidació de la propietat capitalista de la terra i conflictivitat social a la Cataluña prelitoral durant el segle XIX: la comarca del Penedès”. Dins J. Colomé Ferrer i altres (ed.), Vinyes, vins i cooperativisme vitivinícola a Catalunya. Barcelona. Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, p. 245-279.

13. Proofs will only be sent once and must be returned within ten days. After that it will no longer be possible to make any changes.

14.Authors will receive the PDF of the article for dissemination as they see fit and a paper copy of the journal. Further copies can be purchased at a reduced price.

Copyright:

15. From issue 29 (2017) texts published in Estudis d'Història Agrària don't have submission and procesing charges (APCs) and are subject to a Creative Common licence Attribution Non commercial (CC-BY-NC) which allows the work to be shared with third parties, provided that authorship is acknowledged, the initial publication in this journal, the conditions of the licence are met and no commercial use is made. They may be consulted and distributed freely provided that the author and publisher are quoted.

Therefore, it meets the definition of open access form the Budapest Open Access Initiative declaration. The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions and to retain publishing rights without restrictions.

Originality control

Although the author's statement of originality is relied upon, the article will be subject to plagiarism control through the URKUND program.

 

Call for articles for the dossiers of the next issues of Estudis d'Història Agrària and proposals for monographic issues

The journal Estudis d'Història Agrària wants to maintain the publication of a dossier in each issue. For this reason, the journal calls on all agrarists and researchers working on the following topics to submit articles for evaluation and publication in the following issues of the aforementioned monographs

  • Habitat, depopulation and territorial occupation in modern and contemporary times.
  • Digital informatics and agrarian history

You can send proposals for monographs to the Editorial Board of the journal eha@ub.edu.

You can also send articles for the miscellaneous section, which will also be subject to evaluation in accordance with the rules found in the journal.

 

Latest issues and dossiers published:

11. La contractació agrària a Catalunya
12. Pairalism
13. Food and history
14. Livestock farming: aspects of its evolution
15. Contemporary Mediterranean agriculture
16. Franquisme i món rural a Catalunya
17. Tribute to Dr. Emili Giralt i Raventós
18. Mountain economies in Catalonia
19. Pluriactivity in the Catalan countryside
20. Agricultural transformations in 18th-century Catalonia. 40 years after Pierre Vilar's thesis
21. Miscellany
22. Marriage chapters in the rural world
23. Agrarian and non-agrarian uses of water, climate and extreme events
24. Hydraulic engineering and water rights
25. Conflicts and negotiation in the rural world
26. Wines and water
27. Archaeology and agricultural history
28.The introduction and expansion of new conrets
29. Women and the rural world

30-31. Miscellany

32. Miscellany
33. Climate and History

34. Catastrophes and social change

35. Population, depopulation and habitat in the medieval period

 

Declaration of ethics and good practice

Estudis d'Història Agrària subscribe the Declaration of publishing ethics and best practices for scientific journals published by the University of Barcelona.

The University of Barcelona promotes the publication of open access digital journals for the transmission of quality and rigorous scientific knowledge. It is also committed to guaranteeing the ethics of the articles it publishes, taking as a reference the code of conduct and good practices for editors of scientific journals defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

It is essential that all parties involved in the publishing process - editors, reviewers and authors - are aware of and abide by the principles of this code.

 

Editorial Policy

The editorial board:

  1. The editorial board is responsible for the decision whether or not to publish articles received in the journal, which are reviewed without regard to the race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, country of origin, citizenship or political orientation of the authors.
  2. It publishes updated guidelines on the responsibilities of authors and the characteristics of papers submitted to the journal and on the refereeing system used to select articles and the evaluation criteria to be applied by external reviewers.
  3. It undertakes to publish the necessary corrections, clarifications and apologies if deemed appropriate and not to use the articles received for its own research work without the consent of the authors.
  4. It guarantees the confidentiality of the evaluation process: the anonymity of the evaluators and authors, the content that is evaluated, the report issued by the evaluators and any other communication made by the committees (editorial, advisory and scientific). Likewise, it maintains confidentiality in the face of possible clarifications, claims or complaints that an author may wish to transmit to the journal's committees or to the journal's reviewers.
  5. It declares its commitment to the respect and integrity of works that have already been published.
  6. It is particularly strict with regard to plagiarism: texts identified as plagiarism will be removed from the journal or will not be published. The journal acts as quickly as possible in such cases.

 

Authors:

  1. Are responsible for the content of their submission
  2. They undertake to inform the editors of the journal in the event that they detect a relevant error in one of their published articles, so that the appropriate corrections can be made.
  3. They guarantee that the article and associated materials are original and do not infringe the copyrights of third parties. In the case of co-authorship, they must justify that there is consent from all the authors concerned for the final version of the article to be published in a UB journal.

 

Evaluators/reviewers:

  1. They undertake to make an objective, informed, critical, constructive and impartial review of the article. Acceptance or rejection is based solely on the relevance of the article, its originality, interest and compliance with the style and content standards indicated in the editorial criteria.
  2. To respect the established terms (in the event that this is not possible, they must inform the journal's management sufficiently in advance).
  3. Not to share, disseminate or use the information in the articles submitted for review without the corresponding permission of the editor and/or authors.

 

Subscription

If you are interested in receiving paper issues of the journal, please send your personal or academic details and a bank account number where you will be billed to eha@ub.edu. Issues will only be charged as they are published and at a reduced price.

If you are interested in receiving any of the previous issues, please contact the magazine's editorial staff at eha@ub.edu, as long as there are copies left.

 

Archiving and Digital Preservation
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. LOCKSS publisher manifest of REIRE: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/REIRE/gateway/lockss

 

 

Financing

The journal Estudis d'Història Agrària is financed by contributions from sponsors mentioned below and subscriptions to institutions and individuals for the paper edition.

The journal does not include advertising